my wife's IQ is 30+ points higher than my :) I do pretty well - a senior engineer (and among "the best programmers", etc... according to many people i worked with). My wife just can't stand the tech environment, nor the people, nor the work. Primitive, plain, boring, single-sided, ... - some adjectives used by her.
Literature may be considered boring because it takes patience to appreciate, but I think it is neither primitive nor plain. If some programming reaches the level of art, as in a clever hack, maybe we can tell others about the beauty of the solution. (G. H. Hardy says that "Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not". At least history has not borne this out - people do find literature easily more beautiful than they do theorems and programs.)